Old English · suffix
-icge
Normalised -iċġe
- Part of speech
- suffix, feminine
- Declension
- weak n-stem
- IPA
- /ij.je/[id.d͡ʒe]
- Syllables
- ij · je (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- noun
Meaning
-
noun suffix denoting a female agent
ācenniċġe
mother
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *-ggjā, from Proto-Germanic *-gjǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *-ikyeh₂. Cognate with Middle Low German -igge, -ige, -ege, Middle Dutch -igge, -egge (modern Dutch -egge), Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa).
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